On 2017-04-13 02:27, Paul Koning wrote:
On Apr 12, 2017, at 2:22 AM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
The DS500 is a PDP-11, true. But it's also the model that don't have any local
storage, and thus uses MOP in way more ways than any other DS, which might be a
problem unless you have some machine with a proper MOP implementation.
The MOP server that exists for Unix systems will not do. It only supports
booting.
What else do you need? MOP doesn't do much more than that. Config data
download?
Actually, it does. MOP can do reading and writing of data to files as
well. And it can support terminal traffic. I don't even have the
information on how this part of MOP works, all I know is that it does
work. In RSX, you have a program called CCR for the terminal traffic
(Console Carrier Request I think). RSX-11S systems can also do
crashdumps over MOP if they crash.
I know that you can use CCR on VMS as well, but I don't remember the
syntax. Might be some switch to SET HOST.
In any case, MOP is a trivial protocol, fixing omissions in an existing MOP
implementation is pretty easy.
Possibly. I don't have all the details.
Hm. mop.py? That would be nicely portable and easy to create...
Feel free. :-)
Johnny
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